P.l. Santoshi
Jai Santoshi Mata|
1975
Overtime|
2012
Overtime
2012 | 114 min
Overtime' is the tale of a young and beautiful girl Khushi (Swati Sharma) who resides in Mumbai and is working as a 'High Profile Call Girl' but with dreams of developing into a famous Bollywood actress in the future. She comes across various people - from a corrupt politician Aatre (Satish Kaushik) to a well-known businessman Huda (Yashpal Sharma) who is dealing into construction, his determined secretary Liza (Aarzoo Govitrikar), womanizer architect Rajeev (Zakir Hussain), and lastly to a movie co-coordinator Shankar (Vijay Raj). In the midst of all this, Khushi is still holding on to her dream of becoming a Bollywood actress and continues to fight to keep her hope alive against all probabilities.
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Subtitles:English, ArabicLajja|
2001
Lajja
2001 | 202 min
Vaidehi gets married to Raghuvir, an NRI. Suffering the agony of an unhappy marriage, she decides to run away from him when she learns of her pregnancy and that he wants to take their child away from her. In her pursuit for freedom, she meets Mythili who is a bride-to-be, Janaki who is a theatre artist and Ramdulari, a village midwife - all of whom are victims of male chauvinism. They, however, refuse to put themselves down and fight for their rights.
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Subtitles:English, Arabic, RomanianBilla Ranga - Telugu|
2014
Lajja - Russian|
2001
Barsaat Ki Raat|
1960
Barsaat Ki Raat
1960 | 142 min
The story features a number of innovative themes while maintaining the basic form of a love story. It has particularly strong female characters who are independent-minded and choose their own loves and destiny. Conflicts are not so much between the wishes of the parents and children about whom the children will marry, as is a common theme in Indian movies, but on the more complex level of conflicts among the main characters and the duplicitous signals men and women send each other. The movie glorifies the lives of "singing girls" not often regarded highly in Indian society. Although it is set with Muslim characters, the movie seamlessly shows the universality of sensual love.
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Subtitles:English, Arabic